# NYU Skirball Center: New York city's home for for cutting\-edge performances, artistic research, \+ discourse > Bold, avant\-garde, and unapologetically New York\. NYU Skirball brings world\-class performance to Greenwich Village\. See what's on and buy tickets today\. Generated by Yoast SEO v28.5, this is an llms.txt file, meant for consumption by LLMs. ## Pages - [Homepage](https://nyuskirball.org/) - [Additional Benefits](https://nyuskirball.org/become-a-member/additional-benefits/) - [Become a Member](https://nyuskirball.org/become-a-member/) - [Beyond the Stage](https://nyuskirball.org/beyond-the-stage/) - [Venue Rental](https://nyuskirball.org/about/venue-rental/) ## Artists - [García\-Romero, Anne](https://nyuskirball.org/artist/garcia-romero-anne/): \Anne García\-Romero\’s plays include \Paloma\, \Dolorosa\, \Staging the Daffy Dame\, \Lorca in New York\, \Juanita's Statue, Mary Domingo\, \Mary Peabody in Cuba\, \Juanita’s Statue, Earthquake Chica,\ and \Santa Concepción\.\ Her plays have been developed and produced, most notably, at the Public Theater, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Sol Project, the Goodman Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center Theatre, the Los Angeles Theatre Center and South Coast Repertory, as well as in Argentina and Chile\. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, NoPassport Press and Playscripts\. She’s the author of \The Fornés Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of María Irene Fornés\ \(Arizona UP, 2016\)\. She’s co\-editor, with Brian Eugenio Herrera, of \María Irene\ \Fornés in Context\ \(Cambridge UP, 2025\)\. She studied with Fornés at the Yale School of Drama and the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop and Festival\. She’s a founding member of the Latinx Theatre Commons, where she contributes to the Fornés Institute\. She’s an alumna of New Dramatists, Chicago Dramatists, and the Goodman Theater Playwrights Unit\. She’s Professor and Chair of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame\. \www\.annegarciaromero\.com\ - [Ruhl, Sarah](https://nyuskirball.org/artist/ruhl-sarah/): \ Sarah Ruhl\ is an American playwright, author, and teacher\. Her twelve plays include\ In the Next Room, or the vibrator play\ \(Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010; Tony Award Nominee, 2010\);\ The Clean House\ \(Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2005; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004\); and \Eurydice \(\Named one of the most impactful plays of the last 25 years by \The\ \New York Times\\)\\. \Her plays have been produced on Broadway and across the country as well as internationally and translated into fourteen languages\. Most recently, Signature Theater dedicated a season to her body of work\. Her opera \Eurydice \(\with composer Matthew Aucoin\) debuted at the Metropolitan Opera and earned a Grammy nomination, and her musical \Wonder\ with A Great Big World recently finished running at the American Repertory Theater\.  Her books include \Smile, a memoir,\  \100 essays I don’t have time to write,\ and \Lessons from my Teachers\.\ She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN Center Award for mid\-career playwrights, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and a MacArthur “genius award” Fellowship\. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family\. - [Prestininzi, Ken](https://nyuskirball.org/artist/prestininzi-ken/): \Ken Prestininzi\ collaborated with María Irene Fornés in San Francisco and Mexico where he also hosted her playwriting workshops\. He's been directed by Fornés in readings of her plays and been taught her artistic approach and practice\. His chapter on her legacy is included in the book FORNÉS IN CONTEXT published by Cambridge University Press\. His plays include \Matka\, a 2024 finalist at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference; \Ophelia Run Amok\; and \Timbuktu, USA\, revived by Intramural Theater in New Orleans in 2025\. Other works include \Impure Thoughts \(Without Apology\)\, \Cookie Play\, \Beholder\ \(Joseph Jefferson Award\), \Amerikafka\, and \Chaste\, staged in cities from Chicago to Edinburgh, Prague, and Mexico City\. His musical \The Miss Rose Show\ was featured in Playground's 2025 Free Play Festival; he also wrote the book and lyrics for \Ariadne\, \Dee\, and \Servitude\\. Ken is a professor at Connecticut College, where he has directed \Set Zero\, \The Moors\, \Cabaret\, \Cloud Nine\, \Twelfth Night\, and other plays\. He previously served as Associate Chair, then Acting Chair, of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at Brown University, Columbia College Chicago, Cornell University, and Northwestern University\. - [Sibblies Drury, Jackie](https://nyuskirball.org/artist/sibblies-drury-jackie/): \Jackie Sibblies Drury\ is a Brooklyn based playwright\.  Her plays include \Marys Seacole \\(OBIE Award\), \Fairview\ \(Pulitzer Prize, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize\), \Really\, \Social Creatures\, \We Are Proud to Present a Presentation …\ and the musical \Illinoise\ created with Justin Peck based on the album by Sufjan Stevens\. Presenters of her plays include Soho Rep, Donmar Warehouse, The Young Vic, LCT3, Trinity Rep, Victory Gardens, New York City Players \& Abrons Arts Center\. - [TROPICANA, CARMELITA](https://nyuskirball.org/artist/tropicana-carmelita/): \Carmelita Tropicana \(aka Alina Troyano\)\ recipient of the Obie’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2026, is a writer and performer who straddles the worlds of performance art and theater and uses irreverent humor and fantasy as subversive tools to challenge cultural stereotypes and rewrite history from multiple perspectives\. Her most recent work includes \Give me Carmelita Tropicana\!\ a theater collaboration with Branden Jacobs\-Jenkins produced by Soho Rep in 2024\. As an actor she appeared in \Galas\ at Little Island 2025\. Tropicana has been the sole author of works including a podcast memoir commissioned by Soho Rep titled \That’s Not What Happened\, and plays and solos: \The Boiler Time Machine\, \Milk of Amnesia,\ \Chicas 2000\, \With What Ass Does a Cockroach Sit?\ Select awards/fellowships include: US Latin X Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, MacDowell Residency, Park Avenue Armory Residency, and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award\. Her book \I, Carmelita Tropicana, Performing Between Cultures\ is a compilation of scripts, performances, short stories published by Beacon Press\. She was coeditor with Jill Dolan and Holly Hughes of \Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the Wow Café Theater\\. At present she serves on the Board of Directors Soho Rep and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Actors Equity Association\. ## Engage - [Archives Onstage: María Irene Fornés](https://nyuskirball.org/engage/archives-onstage-maria-irene-fornes/): Celebrate your favorite playwright's favorite playwright, this fall at NYU\. - [Prep School: Four Walls and a Roof](https://nyuskirball.org/engage/prep-school-four-walls-and-a-roof/) - [Prep School: Open Machine](https://nyuskirball.org/engage/prep-school-open-machine/): Rashaun Mitchell \+ Silas Riener are New York\-based dance artists\. Their work involves the building of collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital technologies, and material construction\. - [Prep School: War \& Coolness](https://nyuskirball.org/engage/prep-school-war-coolness/) - [Prep School: Gala](https://nyuskirball.org/engage/prep-school-gala/) ## In The News - [Dolly Parton’s Musical, ‘Inter Alia’ and More on Broadway, and Off, This Fall](https://nyuskirball.org/in_the_news/dolly-partons-musical-inter-alia-and-more-on-broadway-and-off-this-fall/): "‘THE 4TH WITCH’ In Manual Cinema’s stylized refraction of “Macbeth,” a witch gives refuge to a girl orphaned by war\. Expect intricate shadow puppets, live actors, overhead projectors and a musical underscore\.\.\.‘DEAF REPUBLIC’ After occupying soldiers kill a deaf boy for not following verbal orders, the people of his town go deaf in this play from the Dublin company Dead Centre, performed in spoken English and American Sign Language by deaf and hearing actors\. With captioning\." - [Sinead O’Connor and Oscar Wilde Get Dances This Fall](https://nyuskirball.org/in_the_news/sinead-oconnor-and-oscar-wilde-get-dances-this-fall/): "Skirball’s two dance presentations this fall sit at opposite ends of a spectrum — one intimate, one epic\. “This resting, patience” seats a small audience onstage to observe the choreographer Ewa Dziarnowska’s cyclical duet with Leah Marojević at close range \(Oct\. 1\-2\)\. “Totem,” performed by the all\-male Butoh company Sankai Juku, builds a dramatic world around its towering titular set piece \(Nov\. 5\-7\)\." - [JAY WEGMAN with David Cote](https://nyuskirball.org/in_the_news/jay-wegman-with-david-cote/): "This month, Jay Wegman celebrates his tenth year as artistic director at the New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts\. The past decade also happens to be a period in which many New York institutions retreated from the world stage\. In 2017, the twenty\-second edition of Lincoln Center Festival turned out to be its last\. The following year, Joseph V\. Melillo retired from Brooklyn Academy of Music \(BAM\) and the Next Wave Festival has contracted ever since\. Then COVID\-19 came along, halting imported performance\. Today, you can still catch foreign\-born work at BAM, St\. Ann’s Warehouse, or the Shed, to name three, but often it originates from England or Australia\." - [Four Walls and a Roof review – fascinating tale of Brecht, the red scare and today’s émigrés](https://nyuskirball.org/in_the_news/four-walls-and-a-roof-review-fascinating-tale-of-brecht-the-red-scare-and-todays-emigres/): Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie explore the playwright’s life, and their journey from Beirut to Berlin, in an absorbing show at the Edinburgh international festival - [New York Times Interviews Bill T\. Jones](https://nyuskirball.org/in_the_news/nytimes-interviews-bill-t-jones/): Bill T\. Jones has moved away from “pure dance,” even dropping the word from his company’s name to reflect a broader identity as a contemporary performance ensemble\. His work now blends storytelling and movement into theatrical collage, as seen in the ambitious Analogy Trilogy, which includes the New York premiere of Ambros: The Emigrant, inspired by W\. G\. Sebald’s The Emigrants\. ## Performances - [Archives Onstage: Celebrating María Irene Fornés](https://nyuskirball.org/performance/celebrating-maria-irene-fornes/) - [Ewa Dziarnowska: This resting, patience](https://nyuskirball.org/performance/this-resting-patience/): Sit inside the dance\. - [Dead Centre: Deaf Republic](https://nyuskirball.org/performance/deaf-republic/): Silence has never been this loud\. - [National Theatre Live Screening: Golden Boy](https://nyuskirball.org/performance/national-theatre-live-screening-golden-boy/): Josh O’Connor leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic\. - [Tom at the Farm](https://nyuskirball.org/performance/tom-at-the-farm/): The funeral is over\. The lying has just begun\. ## Team Members - [Woolf, Brandon](https://nyuskirball.org/team_member/woolf-brandon-2/) - [Wolfe, Julia](https://nyuskirball.org/team_member/wolfe-julia/) - [Williams, Deborah](https://nyuskirball.org/team_member/williams-deborah/) - [Wegman, Jay](https://nyuskirball.org/team_member/wegman-jay/): Jay’s curation has shaped NYU Skirball into one of New York's most distinctive presenting venues; a stage for artists who refuse to play it safe and a platform for ideas that linger long after the curtain falls\. - [Tsunoda, Tomi M\.](https://nyuskirball.org/team_member/tsunoda-tomi-m/) ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://nyuskirball.org/sitemap_index.xml)